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Date: Sun 15-Apr-1989 16:02:49 From: Unknown Subject: NextStap and NeWS what's this difference other than DP Would someone be so kind as to explane the difference between Sun MicroSystems NeWS package and NeXt's NextStep. I know NeXtStep is written in Display Postscript and I have ordered Adobe's DP book. I just scan thru the NeXt news group and expected a bit more postscript programs being exchanged as in the comp.windows.news news-group. Perhaps I should have checked out the postscript news-group. Anyway, any bits of wisdom about NeXtStep as compared to NeWS would be interesting. For example does NeXt step provide a postscript level debugger like the gem Don Hopkins posted last week. Are NeWS and NextStep programs interchangable with a library of defines to map from one world to the other? Grasshopper et al seem to think that display postscript is about the same as NeWS with just some names changed. So, NeXT Landers, why is NextStep our next step in human interfaces? What new ideas does NextStep offer? Is IBM makeing NextStep it's user interface as implied by Jina Lytton in UNIX World? What about the other UNIX developers? Unix Interntional? OSF? Where is NextStep going to fit it? Is it going to be licensed like NeWS is? Or will it be a propriority interface used by NeXt and IBM? Is NeWS so similar that it won't matter? Just currious :) Pete Delaney - Nixdorf UCC | pete@relay.NIXCTC.DE Prefered Addr Loffel Strasse 3 | pyramid!nixctc!pete UUCP from Calf 7000 Stuttgart 70 West Germany | Phone: +49 (711) 7685-128 >From: feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman)
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